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Structural Adjustment in a Changing World

Briefing Paper No. 4, World Summit for Social Development, December 1994
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This Briefing Paper was prepared by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara. Comments by Yusuf Bangura, Solon Barraclough, Dharam Ghai and Jessica Vivian are gratefully acknowledged.
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